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Storybook Capital Characters - Find them all! These characters leapt off the pages of children’s books and into the Storybook Capital. You will most likely see them at Storybook Saturdays and at the Children’s Art & Literacy Festival. Take your photo with them and collect all their autographs! Inspired by the work of Dr. Seuss The Cat in the Hat shows up Who-ville Christmas feast. Look for the furry green at the house of Sally and Grinch in his Christmas outfit. her brother one rainy day when their mother is away. BOOK: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Ignoring repeated objections AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel from the children’s fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks and wrecks the The Lorax warns the Once-ler house. Good thing he has a to stop cutting down trees special machine to clean ev- to produce Thneeds. The erything up! Look for the Cat in his red and white Lorax explains he speaks for striped hat. the trees “for the trees have no tongues.” He accuses BOOK: “The Cat in the Hat” the Once-ler of greed, but it doesn’t stop him from AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel chopping down trees and building a factory. The Lorax complains that the tree chopping and factory smoke is harming the creatures that live there and The Grinch is a solitary crea- glumping the pond. When the trees run out, the ture whose heart is two sizes factory closes. Before the Lorax leaves, he writes too small. He attempts to “Unless” on a pile of rocks. The Once-ler figures put an end to Christmas by out it means that “unless someone like you cares a stealing holiday items from whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s the homes in Who-ville on not.” Look for the fuzzy yellow and orange Lorax. Christmas Eve. Despite his efforts, the residents still BOOK: “The Lorax” celebrate the holiday. The Grinch’s shrunken heart grows and he returns ev- AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel erything he stole and is the guest of honor at the Inspired by the work of Walter Wick Seymour is a curious little stacks of toys to watching a robot assembled from yellow and red bead boy a pile of junk come to life. Look for our Seymour, who first appears in the “Can a larger than life puppet that is nearly 8 feet tall! You See What I See” series. You can’t miss him. Later, Seymour is featured in his own series of books BOOK SERIES: “Can You See What I See?” along with his dog, Buttons. AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Walter Wick They go on many adventures together, from balancing COSTUME: Jesse Ray Inspired by the work of William Joyce Toothiana is the colorful Sanderson Mansnoozie is also Queen of the Tooth Fairy known as the Sandman. This Armies in the Guardians of sleepy Guardian of Child- Childhood series. She is also hood brings children sweet known as the Tooth Fairy dreams. He spends his time and is featured in Book piloting a shooting star and Three. She and the other delivering wishes through Guardians work to stop constant dreaming. When Pitch, the Nightmare King. the Nightmare King attacks Toothiana is fierce and fast. him, he loses control of his She collects teeth because they contain childhood star and crashes to Earth. Look for Sandy wearing memories, including the memories of how to fly. his gold dust costume. Her special power? She can turn from one fairy into many in times of need. BOOK: “The Sandman and the War of Dreams” BOOK: “Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies” AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce COSTUME: Richard Transki COSTUME: Richard Transki E. Aster Bunnymund is also The Man in the Moon is the known as the Easter Bunny in very first Guardian of Child- the Guardians of Childhood hood. He recruits the other Series. His special power is Guardians and watches over super speed. He is known the dreams of the children of as a martial arts master and Earth. Like a giant nightlight for his Zen sense of humor. in the sky, MiM, as he is also Instead of hopping down the known, keeps nightmares bunny trail, Bunnymund is on away. His own family was the warpath. He is working attacked by Pitch, the Night- with the Guardians to defeat the evil Nightmare mare King. Now, MiM and the band of heroes he King. He is also the only emissary of the fabled recruited to serve as the Guardians work together brotherhood of the Pookas, a league of philosophi- to keep Pitch away. If you want to find MiM, look cal warrior rabbits of imposing size and intellect. for the glowing sphere. BOOK: “E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior BOOK: “The Man in the Moon” Eggs at the Earth’s Core!” AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce COSTUME: Richard Transki COSTUME: Richard Transki Jack Overland Frost was first known as Nightlight, a trusted Nicholas St. North , also known companion of MiM (Man in as Santa Claus, is a toy the Moon) in the Guardians of maker who wants to play, Childhood Series. But when have adventures and prac- Pitch the Nightmare King tice a little magic. Every- destroys MiM’s world he near- thing changes when he ly destroys Nightlight, too, meets Pitch, the Nightmare sending him plunging to Earth King, for the first time. Nick where he will remain a boy learns that he needs to use forever frozen in time. He creates frosty landscapes, his wizardry to help those earning the name Jack Overland Frost. He begins in trouble and becomes one of the Guardians of helping children in peril and soon becomes worthy Childhood. Look for Nick in his long red robe, of being a Guardian. Look for Jack wearing his blue white beard and red hat. hoodie with a frosty face. BOOK: “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the BOOK: “Jack Frost” Nightmare King” AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: William Joyce COSTUME: Debbie Crawford COSTUME: Richard Transki Inspired by the work of David Shannon Alice the Fairy has a mag- Duck had a good idea, and they start riding them, ic wand, fairy wings and a too! Clever Duck. Look for a big white duck on a blanket. She uses them to red bike. disappear, fly and transform her dad into a horse. Alice BOOK: “Duck on a Bike” is a Temporary Fairy, and AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: David Shannon there’s still a few things she needs to learn to become a COSTUME: Richard Transki Permanent Fairy, like how to float her dog on the ceiling David always hears no from and make her clothes put themselves away. But his mom. No, no, no! Stop she’s working on it, sort of. Look for Alice in her jumping on your bed, stop pink dress, fairy wings and tiara. tracking mud through the BOOK: “Alice the Fairy” house and no baseball in- side. David might be naugh- AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: David Shannon ty at times, but at the end of the day, his mom says COSTUME: Debbie Crawford she still loves him. Look for David in his blue and white Fergus is naughty but striped shirt, red pants and over-sized head. lovable. From chasing cats and motorcycles to being BOOK: “No, David!” scratched on his favorite AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: David Shannon “tickle spot,” this sweet and silly character will have you COSTUME: Richard Transki laughing out loud at his mis- chievous antics. Look for the all-white terrier. Camilla Cream loves lima BOOK: “Good Boy, Fergus!” beans, but she doesn’t want AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: David Shannon her friends to see her eat them. She wants to be just COSTUME: Richard Transki like them. One day, she wakes up to discover her Duck on a Bike was just regu- body is covered in stripes. lar Duck on a farm before he Soon she starts changing got a wild idea that he could into whatever patterns and ride a bike. He waddles over shapes the kids call out. Just to the boy’s bike, climbs on as Camilla is about to disappear into the walls of and begins to ride. He rides her room, she is persuaded to eat lima beans and slowly at first, wobbling. immediately, she is transformed into her true self. Then he starts having fun! He Look for the girl with the rainbow stripes. rides past Cow and waves, BOOK: “A Bad Case of Stripes” then past Sheep, Dog, Cat, Horse, Chicken and all the other farm animals. AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: David Shannon They have mixed feelings about his bike riding. When a group of children rides their bikes up to COSTUME: Richard Transki the farm and leaves them, the animals decide Inspired by the work of Mark Teague Good Night Dinosaur can’t go Ike is a clever dog. After to sleep without his blankie. terrorizing the neighbor cat Dinosaur doesn’t throw his and snatching one too many teddy bear about when it’s snacks from the kitchen time to turn the lights out. counter, he is sent off to He tucks in his tail and whis- Brotweiler Canine Academy. pers, “Good night!” Look for He writes a letter home to a big and green and purple his exasperated owner, Mrs. dinosaur holding his teddy LaRue, in which he describes bear and blankie. grim conditions and spins images of prison stripes and a ball-and-chain life. BOOK: “How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?” In reality, at Brotweiler, the pooches are served gourmet meals by waiters in white coats.

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